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Fijian archbishop echoes Pope's warnings about dehumanising impact of Artificial Intelligence
the catholic church in fiji has called on fijians to be mindful of the potentially negative effects of artificial intelligence. archbishop p...
Crux Staff
Catholicism and the corrida: a response
the catholic church must sever its ties with bullfighting, argues fr terry martin. pope francis famously wrote in laudato si’ that “every ac...
Fr Terry Martin
Dealing with war and refugees as a priest in Rhodes and Israel
the island of rhodes, in the aegean sea, has always been a gateway between east and west. as the parish priest here for the past 23 years, i...
Luke Gregory OFM
'Catholicism in Numbers': New data highlights the changing Catholic Church in Britain and Ireland
a new set of pastoral statistics regarding the catholic church in england and wales, scotland and ireland has been released by the catholic ...
TimKinnear
Irish-born Los Angeles bishop among 20 'missionaries' who died violently in 2023
a total of 20 missionaries – including an irish-born american bishop – died violently in the service of the faith during 2023, according to ...
Simon Caldwell
'On the sixth day of Christmas my true love sent to me'...Antonia Fraser and Uncle John's Trousers
"christmas comes but once a year," my mother was apt to sing out on st stephen's day, "but when it comes, it brings good cheer!" we children...
Antonia Fraser
Pope offers usual Christmas message of hope while lamenting ‘the little Jesuses of today’ lost to war, migration and abortion
at the end of a year marked by the outbreak of fresh wars and by various personal health crises, pope francis at christmas offered a message...
Elise Ann Allen
Bethlehem Dispatch: A muted Christmas 'bereft its usual festive splendour'
bethlehem's main square is bereft its usual festive splendour and twinkling red, green and white lights. usually bustling this time of year ...
MariamElsayehIbrahim
Staying connected to the Christian message of 'A Christmas Carol'
on this day 180 years ago charles dickens gave his first public reading of a christmas carol . just two days after christmas, around 2...
Laura Perrins
Light in the darkness: war in the Holy Land brings the Incarnation into clearer focus
an apocryphal story, one of my favourites, has been doing the rounds in diplomatic circles for decades. late one advent in the middle of the...
Serenhedd James
'On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me'...Good King Wenceslas, on the Feast of Stephen
try teaching the words of good king wenceslas to a ten-year-old ukrainian who’s still finding her way in english. i’d thought it would be ea...
Noonie Minogue
At a time when we should be celebrating life, others are lobbying for death
pope st john paul ii once remarked that in our celebration of the birth of jesus christ we bear witness that every human is “somebody unique...
Philip Campbell
Christian villages in south Lebanon empty amid daily exchanges of rocket fire
up to 90 per cent of the population of southern lebanon’s christian villages have left their homes since october to seek safety from daily r...
The Catholic Herald
Catholic teacher guilty of professional misconduct after refusing to indoctrinate children in extremist ideology
a catholic teacher was guilty of “unacceptable professional conduct”, a regulator has ruled, after she refused to teach extreme gender ideol...
Simon Caldwell
Fiducia Supplicans: an exercise in smoke and mirrors, where spin becomes substance and appearance reality
st john henry newman once considered the possibility of the crisis that would emerge if a church council or a pope introduced a doctrine tha...
Gavin Ashenden
UK's Confraternity of Catholic Clergy publishes letter reaffirming traditional Church teaching after Fiducia Supplicans
an organisation representing some 500 priests in britain has released a signed letter reaffirming the church's teaching regarding marriage a...
Tom Colsy
‘I want to shout to the world that I’m innocent’ convicted Cardinal tells TV show
rome — in his first major media engagement since being convicted of financial crimes by a vatican tribunal and sentenced to five and a half ...
Crux Staff
‘Urgent pleas’ from Catholic leaders for UK government to lift faith-based admissions cap
education secretary gillian keegan has met catholic leaders amid urgent pleas from the church to lift a highly contentious faith-based admis...
Simon Caldwell
Who would choose to be a Catholic at a time like this?
the phoney war is over. civil war has been launched within the church by pope francis and his recent appointee cardinal victor fernandez.&nb...
Gavin Ashenden
Has Ireland's abortion clamour contributed to another mismanaged sepsis death?
an irish teenager died in university hospital limerick due to delays in recognising and treating sepsis, the sunday independent repor...
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